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Icy Graves
Exploration and Death in the Antarctic
Häftad, 2020
162 kr
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Ever since Captain Cook first sailed into the Great Southern Ocean in 1773, mankind has sought to push back the boundaries of Antarctic exploration. The first expeditions tried simply to chart Antarctica’s coastline, but then the Sixth International Geographical Congress of 1895 posed a greater …
Secret South
A Tale of Operation Tabarin, 1943-46
Av I.Mackenzie Lamb, Stephen Haddelsey
Inbunden, 2018
218 kr
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Seventy years after the end of World War II, the full story of Britain's secret Antarctic expedition has still never been told. Launched in 1943, Operation Tabarin was an expedition to secretly establish bases, keep a watchful eye on German and Japanese activities, and curb opportunistic …
Sinking of the Titanic
Eyewitness Accounts from Survivors
Av Jay Henry Mowbray, Stephen Haddelsey
Häftad, 2023
171 kr
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I ran out on the deck and then I could see ice. It was a veritable sea of ice and the boat was rocking over it. I should say that parts of the iceberg were eighty feet high, but it had been broken into sections, probably by our ship. There fell on the ear the most appalling noise that ever human …
Shackleton's Dream
Fuchs, Hillary and the Crossing of Antarctica
Häftad, 2022
203 kr
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In November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton watched horrified as the grinding ice floes of the Weddell Sea squeezed the life from his ship, Endurance. Caught in the chaos of splintered wood, buckled metalwork and tangled rigging lay Shackleton’s dream of being the first man to complete the crossing of …
Born Adventurer
The Life of Frank Bickerton Antarctic Pioneer
Häftad, 2023
218 kr
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Soldiers and sailors, geographers and geologists, submariners and balloonists all flocked to Antarctica during the ‘Heroic Age’ of Polar exploration. No one better represented this eclectic band than Frank Bickerton, engineer on Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911–14. A …
Poor Bickerton
A Journey to the Dark Heart of Georgian England
Inbunden, 2024
232 kr
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‘An adroit, intelligent and painstaking social history … Poor Bickerton offers us a luxurious tapestry from which everyone interested in English social history in the late-Georgian period can learn something new and surprising.’ – Professor Jerry White, author of London in the Eighteenth Century: A …
London’s Bastille
Mutineers, Radicals and Murder in Coldbath Fields House of Correction
Inbunden, 2025
227 kr
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‘London’s Bastille is both fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable.’ - Fiona Rule, author of The Worst Street in LondonIn 1794, Britain’s newest and much-heralded prison opened its gates in Clerkenwell, north London. Built on the principles laid down by John Howard, the most vocal and committed prison …
London's Bastille
E-bok, 2025
200 kr
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'London's Bastille is both fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable.' - Fiona Rule, author of The Worst Street in LondonIn 1794, Britain's newest and much-heralded prison opened its gates in Clerkenwell, north London. Built on the principles laid down by John Howard, the most vocal and committed prison …
